NEWS | June 12, 2018
Media Telecon About Mars Dust Storm, Opportunity
NASA will host a media teleconference at 10:30 a.m. PDT (1:30 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, June 13, to discuss a massive Martian dust storm affecting operations of the agency's Opportunity rover and what scientists can learn from the various missions studying this unprecedented event.

Participants in the teleconference will include:
- John Callas, Opportunity project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
- Rich Zurek, Mars Program Office chief scientist at JPL
- Jim Watzin, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Dave Lavery, program executive at NASA Headquarters for the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers
Visuals accompanying the teleconference will be posted at the start of the event at:
https://www.nasa.gov/marsduststormtelecon
Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at:
https://www.nasa.gov/live
The teleconference and visuals will be carried live and archived on:
https://youtube.com/nasajpl/live
To ask questions via social media during the televised event, use the hashtag #askNASA
Andrew Good
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-393-2433
andrew.c.good@jpl.nasa.gov
Dwayne Brown / JoAnna Wendel
NASA Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726 / 202-358-1003
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov / joanna.r.wendel@nasa.gov